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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Achievement Community Effort Serious War
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Choice War
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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Leadership Responsibility Wrong
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Action Death Flower Freedom Heart Life Man Spirit
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Government Myself Peace Thinking

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